 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1865 - 252 pagina’s
...The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. JOHN MILTON:... | |
 | Augustus Charles Thompson - 1866 - 248 pagina’s
...The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made ; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. WALLER. "... | |
 | John William Stanhope Hows - 1866 - 574 pagina’s
...The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made : Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. fllarocll.... | |
 | Robert Crookall - 1969 - 204 pagina’s
...no permanent home, but are seekers after a 'city' which is to come". Edmund Waller (1605-1687) said: "Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home : Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new." Wordsworth's... | |
 | David Daiches - 1979 - 336 pagina’s
...The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made; Stronger by weakness, wiser, men become As they draw near to their eternal home; Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. Denham's... | |
 | Douglas Lane Patey, Timothy Keegan - 1985 - 280 pagina’s
...poem: The Soul's dark Cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new Light thro' chinks that time has made. Stronger by weakness, wiser Men become As they draw near to their Eternal home. Its original title, "Of the Last Verses in the Book," and the endorsement preserved in the family,... | |
 | Lillian Watson - 1988 - 356 pagina’s
...certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that emptiness which age descries. The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay 'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time hath made; Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their... | |
 | Helen Deutsch - 1996 - 300 pagina’s
...intellectual than blinding, especially when viewed in the context of the passage's reference to Waller: "The Soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay 'd, / Lets in new light through chinks that time has made."-5 The talent of the dunces as editors is to transform the most... | |
 | Anne Kingsmill Finch Countess of Winchilsea - 1998 - 264 pagina’s
...Book," Poems of Edmund Waller, ed. G. Thorn Drury (New York: Greenwood Press, 1968), 272, ll. 15-18: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshhold of the new. 126 Mercenarys... | |
 | Eliza Haywood - 1999 - 336 pagina’s
...descries. The Mind's dark Cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new Light thro' Chinks that Time has made. Stronger by Weakness wiser Men become, As they draw near to their eternal Home. 3 But, however we may reason on this Occasion, that there is somewhat of an Irksomeness to growing... | |
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Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made: Stronger by weakness, wiser men become As they draw near to their eternal home. Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view That stand upon the threshold of the new. 
